Ten years ago, Robert Scotland & Colleagues wrote an opinion piece contrasting the efforts of taxonomists with the promise of web-based, DNA taxonomy (“The Big Machine and the much-maligned taxonomist“). More than a decade later, what happened? This debate will take the form of a twenty minute intro by Robert Scotland President of the SA and Vince Smith cyber-taxonomist at the NHM who will debate the underlying issues facing taxonomy today and enquire whether the promise of e-taxonomy has been fulfilled?

Robert Scotlandis Reader in Systematic Botany Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, UK

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